AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data
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AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills for Moving Data
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#2Anyone (no longer under NDA) know if Apple intends to migrate user iCloud data from AWS and GCP object stores to their own data centers at some point?
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#3For a service I built on AWS lambda, the far majority of the cost was just data egress. Unfortunately I haven’t found a competitor that offers the same kind of features that I’m using lambda for (running golang with additional custom binaries)
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#4"The charges don’t appear to be a case of cloud providers gouging their customers"
I disagree on this one. The margins on egress are, well...egregious.
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#5For a service I built on AWS lambda, the far majority of the cost was just data egress. Unfortunately I haven’t found a competitor that offers the same kind of features that I’m using lambda for (running golang with additional custom binaries)
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#6Is there a plausible explanation why egress fees from cloud providers costs around $0.1/GB? "Traditional" server providers such as Hetzner are able to offer bandwidth at orders of magnitude lower price (eg. $1.1/TB). I understand that cloud providers may have better interconnects or better uptimes, but that doesn't justify the magnitudes higher pricing.
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#7Is there a plausible explanation why egress fees from cloud providers costs around $0.1/GB? "Traditional" server providers such as Hetzner are able to offer bandwidth at orders of magnitude lower price (eg. $1.1/TB). I understand that cloud providers may have better interconnects or better uptimes, but that doesn't justify the magnitudes higher pricing.
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#8> A person close to AWS said its data transfer charges reflect a range of technology costs customers would normally pay if they weren’t using cloud services, including fiber optic connections, networking hardware devices and software, cybersecurity services and network monitoring software.
I'd believe this more if the pricing of bandwidth on AWS hadn't stayed pretty flat since its launch.
Plus, it's frustrating that AWS Lightsail (https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/) offers a $3.50/month plan with 1 TB of transfer. That terabyte alone will cost you $92.07 on a normal instance, and the $3.50 includes storage and an instance!
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#9"The charges don’t appear to be a case of cloud providers gouging their customers" I disagree on this one. The margins on egress are, well...egregious.
At some point everyone realized they could charge a massive premium per bit and as long as everyone did it, customers would have to pay. So here we are.
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#10Is there a plausible explanation why egress fees from cloud providers costs around $0.1/GB? "Traditional" server providers such as Hetzner are able to offer bandwidth at orders of magnitude lower price (eg. $1.1/TB). I understand that cloud providers may have better interconnects or better uptimes, but that doesn't justify the magnitudes higher pricing.
Thats one of the big money makers plus it locks you in so there is 0 chance they will change it.